Category: Folsom

A single machine is installed with Debian GNU/Linux OpenStack Folsom. Four instances are created and it turns out that nova-network is configured with the wrong public interface. It can be fixed without shutting down the instance:

nova suspend target1

The instance is suspended to disk (as if it was a laptop) and the corresponding KVM process is killed. While the instance is suspended, nova-network can be stopped.

/etc/init.d/nova-network stop

The source of the problem was a typo in the public interface leading to an incorrect VLAN interface

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Installing and testing OpenStack Folsom on a virgin Debian GNU/Linux wheezy takes less than one hour. A set of packages is archived to make sure it keeps working. After checking the pre-requisites such as a public and private interface, the packages are installed and debconf questions answered as instructed.
The networks must then be created with

/etc/nova/nova.conf is updated to set vlan_interface=dummy0, public_interface=eth0 and fixed_range=10.20.0.0/16. /etc/nova/nova-compute.conf is updated to use LibvirtBridgeDriver and an instance can be booted with: